Isabel Alonso Belmonte
List of John Benjamins publications in which Isabel Alonso Belmonte is involved.
2019 Chapter 13. Victims, heroes and villains in newsbites: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Spanish eviction crisis in El País Emotion in Discourse, Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 335–356 | Chapter
This chapter explores, from a systemic-functional perspective, the role that emotional meaning plays in the press representation of news actors in the Spanish housing crisis. By drawing both on the Appraisal framework and on the transitivity distinctions made in Systemic Functional Linguistics, 139… read more
2019 Chapter 4. Challenging the concept of pure objectivity in British and Spanish hard news reports: The case of the 2006 Lebanon War Engagement in Professional Genres, Sancho Guinda, Carmen (ed.), pp. 67–86 | Chapter
This article provides a linguistic analysis of facts and viewpoints in a British-Peninsular Spanish sample of newspaper reports written about the Second Lebanon war (2006). Almeida’s (1992) category system for the analysis of factuality and nonfactuality, and Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal… read more
2016 The construction of meaning in multimodal discourse: A digital story as a case study Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela and M. Dolores Porto (eds.), pp. 111–135 | Article
This chapter’s main goal is to shed light onto the most characteristic meaning making processes in digital storytelling by thoroughly analyzing a single digital narrative from a functional-cognitive perspective. This mixed approach for a case study allows the analysts to unveil the macro and micro… read more
2015 Multimodal digital storytelling: Integrating information, emotion and social cognition Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 147–164 | Article
Digital stories are a very recent multimedia practice by which ordinary people construct short narratives on personal affairs combining voice, images and sometimes music. This paper contributes to the description of this new emergent genre from both a multimodal and a cognitive point of view, by… read more
2013 Benefit or burden? Press representation of immigrant workers during the Spanish economic recession Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives, De Rycker, Antoon and Zuraidah Mohd Don (eds.), pp. 363–393 | Article
2013 Multimodal digital storytelling: Integrating information, emotion and social cognition Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 369–387 | Article
Digital stories are a very recent multimedia practice by which ordinary people construct short narratives on personal affairs combining voice, images and sometimes music. This paper contributes to the description of this new emergent genre from both a multimodal and a cognitive point of view, by… read more
2009 Positioning the reader: A study on the use of interactive textual patterns in English written newspaper editorials and articles of opinion English Text Construction 2:1, pp. 48–69 | Article
The present contribution analyzes the linguistic realization of the Problem-Solution pattern, the Question-Answer pattern and the Claim-Response pattern (Hoey 2001) in a sample of US written newspaper editorials and opinion articles. The objectives pursued are twofold: to explore how these textual… read more